{"id":27925,"date":"2024-03-10T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=27925"},"modified":"2024-03-10T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T16:14:00","slug":"transgender-hubris-through-lear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/10\/transgender-hubris-through-lear\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Hubris Through Lear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Klavan is a gifted writer. He breathes emotion and conviction into his arguments and they ring true. In this essay<\/a> he interprets transgenderism and other manifestations of “transhumanism” through the stories of Lear and Prospero in Shakespeare’s plays.<\/p>\n

What he points out is the hubris that confused men commit when they ignore that they literally are not God.\u00a0 When we pretend that the definitions of human life do not apply to us we set ourselves up for the catastrophe that will follow when we attempt to ignore these boundaries.<\/p>\n

“We have now reached the nadir of that mode\u2014or the zenith, depending on where you stand. This is that moment that Nietzsche talked about, the \u201ccatastrophe\u201d of a civilization awaking to find its foundations gone.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Klavan sees King Lear as the cautionary tale for human hubris and rejection of the natural order and The Tempest as a fairy story about restoring it.\u00a0 Well, I like Shakespeare so I like when a gifted writer uses it to make a point.\u00a0 Bravo Andrew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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